digital8
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 Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject: Hacker Spams Huge Quantities Of Trojans, Again |
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For the second day in a row, an unknown attacker Tuesday spammed major quantities of a new Bagle-esque Trojan horse that turns off virtually every known security program and blocks access to security sites on the Internet.
Several variants of the BagleDI-U Trojan -- dubbed Bagle.cd by McAfee, and Bagle.da by Trend Micro -- have been spammed since Monday at approximately 11 a.m. EDT. A second wave hit the Internet around the same time Tuesday, said U.K.-based security firm Sophos.
"This is the second massive e-mail attack from this hacker in two days, the creator is obviously intent on infecting as many people as possible," said Carole Theriault, a senior security consultant at Sophos, in a statement.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171000505 |
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